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6 unusual facts about Platz


Beatles-Platz

Surrounding the place are five statues, representing The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe, George Harrison, and a hybrid of drummers Pete Best and Ringo Starr each of whom played with The Beatles at times during their Hamburg engagements.

Platz

Reinhold Platz (1886-1966), German aircraft designer and manufacturer

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

The party's predecessor, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), opened its headquarters on the square in 1926.

Theodor-Heuss-Platz

Via Kaiserdamm, Bismarckstraße and Straße des 17. Juni, the Theodor-Heuss-Platz is connected in a straight axis with Ernst-Reuter-Platz, the Berlin Victory Column, the Brandenburg Gate as well as Unter den Linden street and the Schloßplatz.

The Bleu Obelisk was placed opposite the Eternal Flame in 1995.

In 1970, the on the eastern edge of the square located 18-story high TV centre of the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) was finished.


Asher Wade

That Sunday morning newspaper included graphic pictures of the destruction of Jewish homes and stores of Hamburg during Kristallnacht, among which was that of the great Born Platz Synagogue of Rabbi Joseph Carlebach.

Baltika Stadium

Because Simon was Jewish, the Nazi Party renamed the stadium Erich-Koch-Platz after Gauleiter Erich Koch in 1933.

Named Walter-Simon-Platz in his honor, the stadium hosted Königsberger STV in the early 20th century.

Caswell-Massey

It is one of the oldest continuously operating American retail company and the oldest soap and toiletries making company in the United States, as well fourth oldest perfumery after Farina gegenüber of Cologne, Germany; Floris of London in London, England and Galimard of Grasse, France.

DZ Bank

The DZ Bank building in Berlin, located at Pariser Platz 3, was designed by architect Frank Gehry.

Gmunden Tramway

The tramway route runs entirely in the town, from the railway station to the central Franz-Josef-Platz on the Traunsee lake.

Leipziger Platz

Prior to the war, the square was home to the Reichsmarineamt (Reich Navy Office, originally on Leipziger Platz 13, moved to No. 17/Voßstraße No. 20 in the 1900s), the Wertheim flagship department store (numbers 12-13), the Mosse-Palais (headquarters of the German publisher Hans Lachmann-Mosse, Leipziger Platz 15), Palast-Hotel (No. 18-19) and the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture (No. 6-9).

Moltkeviertel

At the corner of Moltkestrasse and Camillo-Sitte-Platz, the building housing the residence and studio (subsequently only the studio) of Edmund Körner was constructed in 1928/29, exhibiting both elements of the Neues Bauen movement and industrial structures, such as at the mine site Zeche Zollverein.

Natalia LL

1995 - Mit Haut und Haar, (Natalia LL, Marina Abramović, Valie Export, Friederike Pezold), Forum Schloss Platz, Aarau/Schweiz

Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße

The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne ("people's theatre") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period).

Squares in Paris

The French use of the word "place", —— where, in the USA, the UK, Canada, etc., an English-speaker would use the word "square", —— follows the pattern established in other European languages: the Spanish use the cognate, "plaza" (like Madrid's Plaza Mayor); the Germans use "platz" (Berlin's Potsdamer Platz); the Italians use "piazza" (Rome's Piazza Navona); etc.

Tom Platz

Thomas Steven Platz (born June 26, 1955 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) is an American retired professional bodybuilder.

Tuttlingen station

The first Tuttlingen station was located near the current roundabout at Aesculap-Platz, at the intersection of federal highways 14 and 311 just outside the settlement and off the road network at the time.


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